Simon Pegg and Nick Frost may star in Tintin
Picture courtesy of IMDB British actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost – best known for comedies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – may play bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s Tintin films. Source: Dominion Post Before I continue, let me first say: OHMIGOSH!!! Growing up with the Tintin books by Belgian artist Hergé, hearing news of it being turned into a movie by Steven...
Astroboy 2009 Release Date
It has been announced that the CG-animated movie take on Osamu Tezuka’s Astroboy will be released on October 23, 2009. I’m reserving my thoughts on this matter, but it’s safe to say that this could definitely fare better than that other movie we love to hate, being CG and not trying to do a live-action of it. There have been no concept arts and photos released yet, so maybe I can reserve my judgement until then?...
Mega Man 9 hits stores next week
Mega Man 9, also known as Rockman 9: The Ambition’s Revival! (Rokkuman Nain Yab? no Fukkatsu!) is slated to be released September 22 in North America. It will be the first Mega Man title to get a number designation since Mega Man 8 way back 1996. As far as the story goes, Dr. Light (Mega Man’s creator) is blamed for a robotic rampage with which Dr. Wily supposedly doesn’t have anything to do. However, since this is a...
Yamapi graduates
Unlike many teen stars all over the world who drop out of high school and wallow in the pool of their own idiocy and talent fees, J-dorama star and Johnny’s Entertainment boytoy Tomohisa Yamashita (Yamapi for fans) took the admirable route of entering school to finish a college degree. Hats off to him as he has finally graduated from Meiji University’s School of Commerce. He started out in 2004 and finally finished in time...
Utada Hikaru to release new English album
Universal Music Group has just recently released as few details. Aside from their profit numbers (which no one except stockholders and finance geeks are concerned about), they also announced that Utada Hikaru’s upcoming English-language album will be arriving soon – sometime in the end half of the fiscal year (October 1-March 31). UMG plans a strong release schedule for the second half of 2008 with new albums from Black...